Concerts at casinos used to mean washed-up crooners singing oldies and standards twice a night. But increasingly casinos are featuring some of the hottest touring acts around. On today's show: why arenas are loosing business to casinos from Connecticut to Atlantic City. Also: Gustavo Santaolalla has made a name both as an Oscar-winning film composer and a guitarist with the electronic-tango group Bajofondo. He joins us to talk about reinventing music of his native Argentina.
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Gustavo SantaolallaRockin' Casinos
From Connecticut to Atlantic City to Las Vegas, casinos are taking concert business away from arenas. Recently, Billy Joel passed up Hartford's civic center in favor of Mohegan Sun, and tours by The Eagles and The Who are stopping at the Borgata in Atlantic City. Today we look at what's ...
Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Santaolalla is the two-time Academy Award-winning composer behind the soundtracks for Babel and Brokeback Mountain. But he also plays guitar with the electronic-tango group Bajofondo. He joins us to talk about reinventing music of his native Argentina with a little help from Elvis Costello and Nelly Furtado.
Bajofondo performs tonight ...
Bajofondo performs tonight ...
Cirque du Soleil, Meet Bob Dylan
While my lifelong love affair with horse racing is a poorly-kept secret, I am not in fact into gambling at all. (Thoroughbred racing is different. Don’t ask me how – it just is.) So while work has occasionally taken ...